Dave Helms
Alabama Tourism Department: Shining Marketing Example — Alabama’s Eats
The Alabama Tourism Department’s two-year food campaign, designed to draw residents and visitors alike to dine on the state’s tastiest samplings, has earned the South’s...
The Gas Price Bonus: Alabama 2nd to Tennessee on Gas Savings
Compared to a year ago, Americans are saving almost $110 million dollars a day on gas prices, gasbuddy.com, a Maryland-based fuel comparison website, estimated...
Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc: Footprints in the Dark Illuminated
CEOs like to talk about “vision, ” but, at Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc. in Huntsville, it’s not a metaphorical discussion.
The company’s latest product generates enhanced...
GATR Technologies: Creative Dishing and the Next Big Thing
The engineers at GATR Technologies in Huntsville knew they had a good product early on, because, at natural disaster sites in the Philippines where...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Poor States Take up Charity Slack
Wealthy Americans are putting a smaller share of their income in the collection pot for the needy, but states like Alabama, with comparatively modest...
Airbus A320: Airbus Launches A320 Designed for Alabama
Airbus had a lot to celebrate in late September, with its first A320neo lifting off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport France, its smart-looking wing sharklets slicing...
Scholarship Scandal: Miss America’s Padded Scholarship Claims
The stranger-than-fiction development of hard news being reported by comedy show “anchors” continues this fall with John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,...
Memorial Parkway: $177 Million Development Plan Unveiled in Huntsville
A $177 million mix of apartments, retail, restaurants, a European-style hotel and creative workspaces will soon come together at the site of the former...
ArcelorMittal: Steel Giants Retool Alabama Mill to Compete with Auto Aluminum
ArcelorMittal and its partner Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Co. are investing $46.7 million in their massive steel mill in Calvert to achieve 5.3...
LuLu’s Rolls into Florida: Lucy Buffett Expands “LuLuLand”
Good news, gumbo lovers: Jimmy Buffett’s Crazy Sista will be opening a new LuLu’s in Destin, Florida in 2015.
Lucy Buffett made the announcement by...